England will play three Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20 matches on their two-month tour of New Zealand in early 2008, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Tuesday.

England will arrive in New Zealand on January 28 and play the first of two one-day warm-up games five days later.

They will then face their hosts in seven limited-overs contests, starting with the Twenty20 games, over the following three weeks before preparing for the Test series.

England will play one two-day match and one three-day first-class game before the first Test at Hamilton on March 5. The tour will end on March 26 after further Tests in Wellington and Napier.

England play in the inaugural World Twenty20 in South Africa and travel to Sri Lanka twice during the first half of their (northern) winter programme before Christmas.